Advice From An Acting Coach During Hollywood Contraction: Don’t Fall For Programs Promising “Secrets” On How To Book Roles – Guest Column
deadline.comEditor’s note: As part of Deadline’s ongoing coverage of the contraction going on in Hollywood, we asked Sam Stiglitz — a former casting director who now coaches by professional referral only — to weigh in on the lack of roles and how actors should protect themselves. Are actors in trouble?
I hear the worry from agents at the big three companies, and I hear the worry from developmental actors fighting to book their first television co-star.
That worry is simple but omnipresent: Where are the jobs? When the SAG/AFTRA strike ended, I tried to caution my clients against believing that the world of jobs would reopen, and auditions would flood in.
But even with managed expectations, no one foresaw this current landscape. As a result of the pandemic and last year’s SAG/AFTRA strike, Hollywood has slowed to a crawl.
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